Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks throughout a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee listening to in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, May 16, 2023.
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Recent key departures from Twitter may land the platform in scorching water with the Federal Trade Commission if it may well’t adjust to an earlier settlement, Democratic senators warned firm leaders Friday.
After information broke final week that each Twitter’s head of belief and security, Ella Irwin, and head of name security and promoting high quality, A.J. Brown, had departed, 4 senators wrote in a letter to Twitter proprietor Elon Musk and new CEO Linda Yaccarino that they had been involved about Twitter’s means to fulfill its authorized obligations.
Twitter entered right into a consent decree with the FTC finalized in 2011 that barred the corporate for 20 years from deceptive shoppers about its safety and privateness protections and requiring a strong data safety program topic to unbiased audits. Last 12 months, Twitter reached a $150 million settlement with the FTC and Department of Justice for allegedly violating that settlement through the use of shopper data it purportedly collected for safety causes to focus on adverts.
In the letter, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Ed Markey, D-Mass., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, expressed concern with Twitter’s means to adjust to its earlier commitments in gentle of the latest departures.
“These personnel changes, firsthand accounts from employees, and hasty launch of new products raise questions about whether Twitter is able to comply with its obligations under the FTC consent decree,” the senators wrote. “In apparent dismissal of concerns regarding reducing his workforce, Mr. Musk’s team has said he is ‘used to going to court and paying penalties, and was not worried about the risks,'” citing a New York Times article describing Musk’s takeover.
The Democrats requested the Twitter leaders a number of questions on whether or not and the way the corporate has complied with the safety and privateness obligations within the FTC consent decree. The senators requested solutions by June 18.
“Mr. Musk’s behavior reveals an apparent indifference towards Twitter’s longstanding legal obligations, which did not disappear when Mr. Musk took over the company,” the senators wrote. “Regardless of his personal wealth, Mr. Musk is not exempt from the law, and neither is the company he purchased.”
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